From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jun  9 10:20:31 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (privatecube.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.30])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id BB4A237BB5E; Fri,  9 Jun 2000 10:20:28 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from mi@privatelabs.com)
Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (root@misha.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.6])
	by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA02206;
	Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
Received: (from mi@localhost)
	by misha.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA14802;
	Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from mi)
From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@privatelabs.com>
Message-Id: <200006091719.NAA14802@misha.privatelabs.com>
Subject: secondary DHCP servers
To: questions@freebsd.org, network@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:19:31 -0400 (EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Hello!

We were recently inconvenienced by the downtime of the machine acting as
the DHCP server.  So I'm wondering if  it is possible to  have more then
one DHCP server support the same family of clients.

My  primary concern  is, of  course, to  ensure no  server assigns  to a
client  an IP  address  that's  already assigned  by  another server  to
another client.  But I'd  also prefer  to only  administrate one  of the
servers  and have  the other  pick up  the changes  much like  secondary
DNServers pick the updates from the primary.

Thanks for ideas/pointers.

	-mi


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message